The end of private property in Venezuela, Carlos Alberto Montaner
began the assault on private property in Venezuela. The excuse is the elimination of factories and supposedly unproductive estates. How are you companies do not create wealth or jobs with the intensity that the President wants, the government expropriated. Once in the hands of the state, Mr. Chávez, always kind to oil revenues and taxes paid by the Venezuelans, they will inject capital and will provide thousands of employees earning lavish salaries. These companies, of course, they will lose huge amounts of money, but for revolutionary thinking this is a negligible figure. The losses will be wiped away with plenty of public money, as they create a multitude of grateful stomachs, presumably, will join the revolutionary side. That is precisely the essence of populism.
The economic consequences of this stupidity is the collective impoverishment of society. While most public companies lose money, more poor is becoming the society that must support them. Why do you think Mr. Chavez that communist countries were hopelessly miserable? Those thousands of unnecessary workers crowded companies, led by apathetic bureaucrats dedicated to repeat political slogans and inflexibly governed by price controls inevitably led into the general disaster. That explained patiently and in vain Ludwig von Mises Lenin in a book called Socialism published in 1922, when the Bolshevik revolution had just premiered.
not heeded him. But not because the Communists did not understand the impeccable reasoning of the Austrian economist, but because the decision to seize Private property was ideological, not economic. Marx, who was an enlightened prophet, had said that changing the ownership system (structure) would change social attitudes and institutions (the superstructure), giving rise to the new man, a virtuous and caring creature built paradise on earth. A Lenin a damn if all companies sank: I wanted was an obedient Soviet mass to test the crazy theories of Marx, and, incidentally, to rule as despotic autocrat who was relentless.
Chavez, Castro's hand, his dearest mentor, will exactly the same way. Behind the dismantling of private property is the pursuit of economic efficiency but of political control. Where there is no private property can not simply rebellion or civil disobedience. Where the state owns the means of production, society servile stooping head because the government controls your way of eating, and because each company becomes a link in the chain of repression. This explains why no communist dictatorship disappeared as a result of massive popular rebellion. The citizen in the hands of the state is a defenseless being. Those who remember clearly the process that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall know all too well: communism collapsed when the Germans began to run toward the border and Gorbachev refused to shoot. No running to the barracks to dispute the power of the military, or to the offices of the party to confront the officials of the dictatorship. Trying to escape, not fight, because the experience, with the exception of a handful of heroic dissidents, had tamed.
The goal of eliminating private property in Venezuela is this: start the housing of society in order to submit it without mercy. The institutions will become stable. Venezuelans will be controlled in your neighborhood by the Bolivarian Circles and the companies will work under the watchful eye and relentless union official. The families, afraid, be split into pieces hostile. The parliament, in turn, adopt the laws necessary to secure them with a strong flange, while the courts, obedient to the authority of the executive, be ruthless with any breach of rules deliberately vague and imprecise, so that sanctions can be imposed according to the situational needs of the revolution.
When you close the circle of terror, there will be no free press or other voices of protest heard the screams of the victims. But how terrible is the general indifference to these monstrous acts. It has always been.
October 2, 2005 Taken from http://www.firmaspress.com
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